Lenoir County NcArchives Obituaries.....Loftin, Shadrack November 12, 1863 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Steven Hill bentpine300@aol.com July 23, 2011, 11:27 am Biblical Recorder, Raleigh, NC, Nov. 25, 1863 Died in Lenoir County, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Cynthia Dunn, near Kinston, of cancer of the head, Shadrach Loftin, aged 80 years, 10 months and 12 days. Additional Comments: According to the Loftin Family Bible, it states that he died in October from cancer caused by his hat rubbing on his ear. His death date of November 12 1863 comes from the book Kinston and Lenoir County published in 1954. The author came upon the Loftin-Dunn Cemetery and recorded the dates on the grave markers. Unfortunately, the markers for Shadrack Loftin and his wife Sarah, have long dissappeared and only 2 foot markers are left with the initials SL on both. That was the condition of the cemetery when I, Steven Hill, the great- great-great grandson of Shadrack Loftin, found it in the 1970s. The original house is still there situated across the road from the cemetery located in a area known as Jerico north of Kinston. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb